The influence of particle composition upon the evolution of urban ultrafine diesel particles on the neighbourhood scale

Nikolova, Irina; Cai, Xiaoming; Alam, Mohammed Salim; Zeraati-Rezaei, Soheil; Zhong, Jian; MacKenzie, A. Rob; Harrison, Roy M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17143-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17143-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17143-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 23

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05 Dec 2018

Research article |

| 05 Dec 2018

The influence of particle composition upon the evolution of urban ultrafine diesel particles on the neighbourhood scale

Irina Nikolova, Xiaoming Cai, Mohammed Salim Alam, Soheil Zeraati-Rezaei, Jian Zhong, A. Rob MacKenzie, and Roy M. Harrison

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The influence of particle composition upon the evolution of urban ultrafine diesel particles on the neighbourhood scale I. Nikolova, J. Zhong, R. M. Harrison, M. S. Alam, S. Zeraati Rezaei, X. Cai, and A. R. Mackenzie https://doi.org/10.25500/eData.bham.00000275

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There are increasing health concerns about the smallest airborne particles found in polluted urban atmospheres. These particles are composed of a mixture of oil-derived substances, but the exact composition is not known and is likely to be very complicated. We provide a way to compute how these particles change as their chemical make-up changes. We also outline the range of particle compositions that reproduce the behaviour of the smallest particles seen in field measurements.